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| In this day and age..... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| In this day and age..... Finding an upholsterer in your city shouldn't be any more difficult than finding a good Dentist. Ask around....go to the best antique shops in town and ask who they'd bring a piece to..... It's best (of course) to find an upholsterer who specializes in MCM furniture, but I believe that if your town doesn't have one, a good professional upholsterer should be able to determine how to fix your piece - especially if you have pictures of how it should look. When I started to buy MCM furniture for my new (old) house, I asked a couple of M ... | |||||
| sdr | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| sdr that is the hardest chair to do. using that miller strip fabric. I wrote the other night about chairs that are difficult and when I first bought the shop and wanted to redo shell chairs the guys were doing vinyl on the sides, and stripe on the seat cause they were afraid they could not get them going straight. as time went by and lots of trial and error they learned to get the stripes straight were they are not wavy ,you can not be 100 percent perfect but we do have it down, and ... | |||||
| barry | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| ... worth of foam and make a cover and make it fit tight with glue, If you make a mistake you must peal it off and start over some times you can save the fabric sometimes it is trashed, If you do not use a heaviy enough fabric, the glue bleeds right through and it is trashed that happened on my egg chair I chose a a great looking knoll fabric and it was to thin , I went to messenger Maharam and it was fine as it was thick enough, The womb is just as difficult as the ... | |||||
| LRF...why is it hard? | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| LRF...why is it hard? the hardest thing to upholster in MCM furniture is Womb chairs, swan chairs, Egg chairs, coconut chair, and the Eames Arm shells, we have done them all. ------------------ LRF: I have heard that the Egg chair is especially problematic since it's difficult to get the fabric to stay adherred to the back of the chair. I guess the same might go for the Coconut chair (although my late friend had an original one with orange vinyl. The vinyl was torn on the inside along one of the seams, but the remainder of the vinyl was well attached to t ... | |||||
| solvent opinions | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dankman | General discussion | |
| ... coatings. Oil finishes on wood (Watco-type), can be easily renewed if their appearance is altered. Acetone, MEK and lacquer thinners are much 'higher power' solvents but ones that are easily controlled because they evaporate so quickly. I like 'ketones' but I'm careful of their use around plastics - especially acrylics - that might be crazed by them. There's many other kinds of organic solvents. Another good one is Xylol - medium solvency and a slower evaporation rate make it useful for stuff too stubborn for naphtha. Intermediate power stuff requiring ... | |||||
| Nice | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | vintage damage | General discussion | |
| Nice I noted one of those Prober sofas at the most recent modernism show in L.A. A friend has one from Thayer-Coggin with a difficult burnt orange wool. His has the same mirrored plinth base, which was a brilliant touch. It is different in the cushions and attributed to Milo Baughman. | |||||
| If original, shouldn't they have the big K label? | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| ... Avenue was used after 1961. But they moved to 745 Fifth Avenue in 1970. Knoll Associates became Knoll International in 1969. However, I doubt that they went around the country to change labels on already manufactured pieces, so when they were actually SOLD is difficult to be sure based on the labels. Dating Herman Miller pieces is a bit easier. Confusing, isn't it? | |||||
| only time paying for anyth... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| ... support in moonmby India it is the worst!! I grinch when i have to talk to these folks cause i find it very difficult to understand them, I am sure they are as frustrated as i am but when you have to feed lots of people and they are being paid cheap wages, that is what you get, | |||||
| This brings up a good point...impossible to try these chairs | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| This brings up a good point...impossible to try these chairs Unless you're lucky to live in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris or London, you're not likely going to find all of these lounge chair to "try out" for fits, as regards your size. I'm in Minneapolis, and there is a Womb chair that I can sit in at DWR, but their Eames Lounge is on a platform display. I doubt that there's an Egg or Swan within 200 miles. So....it IS difficult to make a comfort decision for most of us. And....that really sucks. | |||||
| Thanks Olive, that is some re... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | HP | General discussion | |
| Thanks Olive, that is some re... Thanks Olive, that is some really great info. I think we'll all have to go a bit further in the future and instead of just replacing what we've got now with better technology is to replace but still reduce our usage even further. I havn't found it difficult to do and as I said before a relatively simple life (I'm not wearing a loin cloth quite yet) is a better life. I rather agree with you about cars too. | |||||
| I am looking for time to.... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| I am looking for time to.... contribute to this very intersting discussion, but it will have to wait another day or so. I would like to correct one interpretation of history that is mentioned over and over again and that is part of the Bauhaus "mythology". There is no question about the fact that the Nazis made it difficult for the Bauhaus to survive. But one also has to mention that it also collapsed under fierce internal warfare. When Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937 they had been working in England since 1935 , Lazlo Moholy Nagy h ... | |||||
| pragmatism is a good sifter | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | kdc (USA) | General discussion | |
| ... i have a difficult time getting out of it, which could very well be a safety feature [of sorts], because if i can't quite muster up that much energy to get up, i must not be done sitting yet. anyway, i have a small pile of nice, rough-sawn yellow cedar [reclaimed from old utility poles] given to me by a friend. i intend to make a couple of adirondacks for the yard. they won't be nearly as portable as your hm chair, but the price is right. speaking of lawn chairs, i always take my beat-up, old aluminum-tube framed, redwood-slatted lawn chair to my son's base ... | |||||
| Pros....and cons | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| ... you do find that many people call everything under the sun 'Eames', so it's difficult to find real Eames items * Every Howard Miller is a George Nelson design....not * Sometimes, items are not in the condition you thought they were * Sometimes, items are not properly packed and get damaged in shipping On the plus side, though, you can find items that you won't find anywhere else, and if you're not sure, you should go ahead and email the seller with questions before you bid. (Many do not bother to do this.) On the whole, I have had great success with eBay p ... | |||||
| I agree and have to add that... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | HP | General discussion | |
| I agree and have to add that... I agree and have to add that the advertisments mean virtually nothing to me, I've clicked on 2 of them from memory, mostly they just look boring or silly, "hey look theres another freaking boring egg chair, I must look at that..." mmmmmmm. The design conscious must be difficult to market to, speaking for myself I know exactly what I want from a product and don't think I can really be wooed with cheap tricks. | |||||
| gosh, I just find it irritata... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | HP | General discussion | |
| gosh, I just find it irritata... gosh, I just find it irritataing, its a horrible site to navigate and selling is a nightmare, perhaps you guys find buying simpler but thers a lot of folk who are difficult to deal with. | |||||
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